Faiths: The Moslem World's Struggle to Modernize

April 1965 coincides roughly with
Dhu-al-Hijja in the year 1384 A.H. (after the hegira). It is the last
month of Islam's lunar calendar, and the season to perform the hajj,
the pilgrimage to the holy places of Mecca that for devout Moslems is
both spiritual duty and lifetime dream. More than 1,200,000 pilgrims
entered Mecca to carry out the prayers and ablutions of Islam's most
sacred ritual (see following color pictures of last year's hajj).
Luckily, this year there were no outbreaks of typhoid or cholera like
those that have sometimes turned the hajj into a pilgrimage of...